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Monday, 25 May 2015

The Girl at Midnight
Author: Melissa Grey
Publisher: April 28th 2015
Publication Date: Delacorte Press~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~

For readers of Cassandra Clare's City of Bones and Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, The Girl at Midnight is the story of a modern girl caught in an ancient war.

Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known.

Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it's time to act.

Legend has it that there is a way to end the conflict once and for all: find the Firebird, a mythical entity believed to possess power the likes of which the world has never seen. It will be no easy task, but if life as a thief has taught Echo anything, it's how to hunt down what she wants . . . and how to take it.

But some jobs aren't as straightforward as they seem. And this one might just set the world on fire.

How could it have gone so wrong? It's funny how you can go
from really liking a book to really hating it within 30%. The first 10% of The
Girl at Midnight was iffy for me, but then I really got into it, but somewhere
between 50% and 80% things went downhill fast.

There are a few reasons why, the main reason being the
dreaded obligatory love triangle, but I'll get to that in a minute. First, the
good things about The Girl at Midnight.